Beau Greaves is an Australian wildlife enthusiast who lives in the outback of Queensland. He shared a video on June 25 of himself reaching into a hole in the ground until his entire torso is submerged, then he pulls out an enormous black crab. Greaves explains his approach to riling up the crab in the video, leaning over the hole while holding up a stick and showing how he plans on using it to lure the crab. He wrote that he’s very nearly lost several fingers and had his wrist crushed in the past, but has seen his skill at catching crabs using this method improve over time. It’s clearly served him well in this video, as he emerges triumphant, clutching the large crustacean. Credit: Beau Greaves via Storyful

The Explosive Ordnance Response Team, Queensland’s bomb squad, was called to deal with the potentially dangerous device, setting up detours away from the road and carefully dismantling the pot for more than an hour.

But if the terrible smell didn’t give it away, opening the pressure cooker certainly did. Inside they found a bunch of crabs.

In a statement to news.com.au, Queensland Police confirmed emergency services was worried about the device — up until they realised the fishy smell coming off it was from crabs inside.

“It was stinking and was way too smelly to put in a police vehicle, so we had to call the council to come and pick it up,” a spokesperson said.

There are Explosive Ordnance Response teams all throughout the state, which, the police spokesperson admitted, normally deal with things a little more serious than crabs in a pot.

“We originally thought it was a bit of a bigger deal than what it was,” the spokesperson said.

Queensland Police later tweeted the update writing, “Chambers Flat Rd will reopen shortly after the suspicious device in fact turned out to be crabs in a pot.”

When pushed to provide pictures from a Twitter user, the Queensland Police were quick to fire back with a snappy, and appropriate response.